'applauds' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English
It is a verb meaning to clap or show approval of someone or something. Example sentence: The audience applauded loudly as the lead actor bowed for the final time.
And in the end, the father, becoming disabled himself – developing a creeping disabling condition – and with the terrible burden of Joey, hates life so much he kills himself, then the audience applauds.
At Bletchley Park, Standen also applauds the film's rehabilitation of Turing, who is thought to have killed himself by taking arsenic in Manchester a year after he was prosecuted for committing a homosexual act in 1952.
No one calls for a ban on bare-breasted Kate Moss or Madonna, but instead applauds them for "being in control".
He applauds the international response to Ebola, describing it as "people putting their politics on the side, dealing with the problem".
It also applauds the mayor's determination to open 100 new elementary and high schools by 2010 and is raising $15m-20m 15m-20mort.
The Nation's Dave Zirin applauds the decision to take some health decisions out of the hands of team doctors, but doesn't seem optimistic about a substantive solution.Here's what I'm wondering: what about rugby players?
Mr Thiessen applauds Mr Pompeo for supporting NSA surveillance.
Babbage applauds Company A's efforts, but believes the firm's proprietary know-how could do wonders outside the narrow confines of finance for the public in general and for high-tech in particular.
He applauds JW3 as a "significant development for the Jewish community", but argues that it must be seen as a wider resource and not just a Jewish resource.
It funds an innovation centre that perfected the telemedicine systems its doctors are now using for remote dermatology consultations, for example.Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School applauds the firm's culture of innovation.
Mr Tremonti has merely said he would spend "as much as necessary".Tito Boeri, an economics professor at Milan's Bocconi University, applauds Mr Tremonti's measured response to the banking crisis, but worries that "he is not fully aware of the effect on the real economy".
